By Scott Korb
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the First-Annual Chapman Cup—what we called a mini-major, a hard-court/grass-court genderless doubles competition, hosted in Portland the final weekend of 2024’s summer—is that the origins of the tournament remain a mystery even to its head organizers.
By Amy Lam
After months and months of playing with an off-the-rack aluminum stick with sad strings, I finally got a proper racquet so I could thwack red balls the size of grapefruits and hear a fat thump that’s somewhere in between the proper sweet-spot pop and the soft thud of a wool ball tumbling in a dryer.
By Jay Boss Rubin
Don’t call it a comeback–Portland Athletic Club, or “PAC,” has been here for years. Marion Blackburn founded the business in 1977